Experience

gtbeds

• Egypt
• Wholesale
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Commercial Officer (CCO)

  • Jan 2022 - Present

• Director of Contracts

  • Oct 2015 - Jan 2022

  - In charge of all the purchasing process from both XML's suppliers & DMC's suppliers.- Leading the Contracting & Data Entry teams & direct contracting part through our offices in Egypt & UAE.- Holding all communications with our suppliers including arranging all contracts till signing step & do all the training process for extranet suppliers either on-site or through online meetings.- Products/Markets analysis depending on the search to book report to know if we have weakness on any destination & suggest suppliers to fulfill.- Productivity reports, Detailed reports for all our system productivity.- Responsible for all the technical issues with our developer (coordinating between all departments to know if they are facing any errors during normal work flow & report it to developer & follow till fixing). - Sharing some sales calls to Kuwait & UAE (GCC region). - Participating in the design of our ATM 2016 – ATM 2017 booth & agenda.- Attending different exhibitions such as ATM 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, ITB Berlin 2017, WTM London 2017. Show less



Gezira Travel

• Egypt
• Leisure, Travel & Tourism
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Product Manager

  • Jun 2015 - Present

• Assistant Business Development Manager

  • Apr 2014 - May 2015

  - Establishing the Extranet department using 'Gezira Travel' reputation in the local market to obtain the best exclusively hotel deals.- Leading a team of 12+ highly qualified fighters to supply & being the local back office for 15+ On-line booking systems. - Building structures for all Egypt’s hotels & sightseeing on a very high speed edge (collecting data & supervising the data entry process). - 24/7 Customer Services through an emergency mobile line for the on-line agencies & clients. - A recognized problem-solver for the clients. - Preparing studies about the different competitors. Show less



Belhasa Tourism & Travel

• Online Reservation Supervisor

  • Apr 2013 - Apr 2014

  - In charge of establishing the company new online system. - Receiving different offers from IT developers to compare & prepare SWOT analyses to GM. - Sign with one of the major successful IT partners in the field on a special reasonable rate (got around 32% discounted offer for my firm with a flexible payment conditions). - Participating in the design of our B2B & B2C portals (Design process took more than 2 consecutively months). - Getting a promotional discounted rates from 3 of our suppliers in occasion of launching the system. - Training all the staff & providing the technical support for the first 2 months of launching the system. - Promoting the system for other agents & companies & doing onsite presentations. - Establishing a proper & professional Contracting department from scratch (on this regard we have achieve the below): *Sign a valid contracts with 230+ hotels in UAE. *Managed to get 40+ credit hotels to Belhasa Travel without any bank guarantees. Show less



Gezira Group

• Hospitality
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Tour Consultant

  • Jul 2009 - Apr 2013

  - Working on 'Gezira Travel' Tariff rates process. - Analyze all the different rates on the market & on competitors Tariffs. - Incentives & conferences department. - Special Tours packages. - Handling Charters Operations - Negotiating rates with hotels - Customer Services through an emergency mobile line for agencies & clients. - Working on 'Gezira Travel' Tariff rates process. - Analyze all the different rates on the market & on competitors Tariffs. - Incentives & conferences department. - Special Tours packages. - Handling Charters Operations - Negotiating rates with hotels - Customer Services through an emergency mobile line for agencies & clients.



Sakkara Travel International Ltd (STI UK)

• United Kingdom
• Leisure, Travel & Tourism
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Tour Operator

  • 2008 - 2009

  - Negotiating rates & settle data base for STI-UK (UK office was opened recently). - Early set-up for Rally Pharaoh 2008. - Tailor made packages, quotations, incentives & conferences. - Special treatments honeymooners & marriage proposals packages. - Negotiating rates & settle data base for STI-UK (UK office was opened recently). - Early set-up for Rally Pharaoh 2008. - Tailor made packages, quotations, incentives & conferences. - Special treatments honeymooners & marriage proposals packages.

• Senior Tour Operator

  • Feb 2002 - Jul 2008

  - Arranging Tours Packages & quotations. - Arranging Honeymooners Packages. - Arranging Incentives, conferences. - Handling Charters Operations. - Negotiating rates with hotels. - Arranging Tours Packages & quotations. - Arranging Honeymooners Packages. - Arranging Incentives, conferences. - Handling Charters Operations. - Negotiating rates with hotels.